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Bound to Matter: Artists' Books and Illness Experience

Bolaki, Stella (2023) Bound to Matter: Artists' Books and Illness Experience. In: Sjöberg, Sami and Keskinen, Mikko and Karjumaa, Arja, eds. The Experimental Book Object: Materiality, Media, Design. Routledge, New York, pp. 145-159. ISBN 978-1-03-236881-8. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:101520)

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Abstract

Shifting the focus beyond traditional narrative modes of understanding illness that have dominated the first ‘wave’ of the medical humanities field, this chapter examines stories of illness that literally ‘matter’, as artists’ books, and that communicate illness experiences in uniquely materialist and tactile ways. I discuss a wide range of contemporary books by international artists drawn from the University of Kent’s “Prescriptions: Artists’ Books” collection. Through conceptual and meditative books, textured books that evoke palimpsests, sculptural book-bodies, and other experiments, the artists this chapter brings together expand the representational strategies available for communicating illness in medicine and culture.

Item Type: Book section
Subjects: P Language and Literature > PR English literature
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of English
Depositing User: Stella Bolaki
Date Deposited: 03 Jun 2023 16:42 UTC
Last Modified: 19 Jan 2024 16:29 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/101520 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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